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The Road Rage is Here

Sometimes it’s just unavoidable: we have to drive cattle down the road.

Unfortunately, there are people on this earth who actually want to drive down this same road. It takes them where they need to go, you see.

Roads are funny that way.

Some of them just can’t handle the wait. They have things to do. People to see. Places to go.

And cows ain’t a part of it.

These are the times I love my telephoto lens.

I like to watch the fun unfold.

Call me ornery.

You can almost smell the road rage in the air.

I lived in L.A. I know road rage when I see it.

All the while, the cowboys go about their duties, largely unaware of the anger building in the air.

Cowboys don’t understand road rage. If cattle need to be taken down the road, you take them down the road. There’s nothing so important that can’t wait until the cattle get down the road. If you’re so enslaved to your schedule that you come unglued over a five minute delay, you need to spend more time whittling on the porch in the evenings.

This is what civilians think of that approach.

I probably fall into the civilian category. The road rage is still very present.

Believe it or not, It moderately blows my mind when the cowboys do this. “Those people need to go to work!” I think to myself as I watch it all unfold through the relative sanctity of my telephoto lens. “This is RIDICULOUS!”

“Can’t they move the cattle on their OWN time?”

“Can’t they take the LONG way to the other pasture? Like, through Louisiana or something?”

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so far this is my FAVORITE set of your photos!!!! I want to drive cattle down the road…that looks so awesome 🙂

Angela Lively

Loved the Louisiana comment! Since I live in Louisiana and all…

Jacque

Good photos, wow it looks cold there today!!

http://www.little-men.blogspot.com Kathryn

Great photos, especially with the captions!

http://lifebeyondthesidewalks.blogspot.com Wendy

I would love to see that on my way to work!

Nicole

Hahahaha….. those are great pics! That’s why I always have a good book in my car – never know when you’ll come across a cow or 10,000…… 🙂

NanaK

That is a traffic jam I would not mind being stuck in!

http://www.plainjaneprims.com Angie

That would definitely make some people angry – but if my son was in the car with me he would LOVE IT (and want to do it all over again every day)!

http://www.mydogumentary.wordpress.com gingela5

Maybe if we chose some lovin’ like that last cow we’d all be a little happier on the road. : ) And I officially went over the decency line!

Jamie

I, personally, would love to have my drive stopped for that but I am kinda weird like that….

http://surfergalsmassage.com p. claire

i had to be in nyc yesterday, i would have loved to see that on the long island expressway.

Laura

I love your comments with the pictures. We used to move our sheep to the local ski hill by way of the road too. Since it’s not an everyday sight, they thought it was great. It was nice talking to people who rarely see sheep.

Noel

HAHA. The last shot is priceless.

This website is always such a good morning pick-me-up. May you always find the energy to give us early posts.

http://www.websavymom.com WebSavyMom

–>The cowboys are comparing their rides to the horse-less carriages! 😉

Awesome!!! Those are great shots!! Those people took the wrong turn or not. I would love to see that in person!

Barb

I’d gladly leave five minutes earlier to be a part of this action…..very cool. Kinda like watching cops direct traffic.

Jodee

LOVE IT!!!! I’ve been stuck in my car in the middle of a cattle drive before, I love it!

Sonia Swensen

Oh, thank you for that last picture! I laughed out loud at how random it was at the end of a story about road rage. (I would definitely fall into the “violent thoughts” category. City girl, you know.)

Darcy

That would totally be me in the truck, leaving the cattle behind in my dust – I definitely have the road rage in me 😉

http://theconfusedhomemaker.com/ beth aka confusedhomemaker

I can honestly write/say that I’ve NEVER been late to work or anywhere because of cattle in the road. It’s making me laugh so hard to think about it 😀 I’m usually late because around here we have construction that NEVER ENDS!! I’ll bet it’s worse than the random cattle, but then again I’m distracted by the whole cowboy thing. So maybe I’m not a good judge of road rage as it relates to cattle 😉